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Post by iank on Apr 19, 2024 21:47:03 GMT
Lost was awesome, though Abrams had little to do with it beyond setting it up anyway.
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Post by rushy on Apr 19, 2024 22:07:16 GMT
Obviously we will have to agree to disagree on this one, because as far as I'm concerned, it doesn't even deserve to be mentioned in the same breath as Twin Peaks. True, I'm watching Twin Peaks for the first time and it's just not as good as Lost sadly. Very inconsistent. It's a lot of fun when it goes bonkers though.
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Post by Ludders II on Apr 19, 2024 22:12:05 GMT
Obviously we will have to agree to disagree on this one, because as far as I'm concerned, it doesn't even deserve to be mentioned in the same breath as Twin Peaks. True, I'm watching Twin Peaks for the first time and it's just not as good as Lost sadly. Very inconsistent. It's a lot of fun when it goes bonkers though. It pisses on Lost from such a great height that it's frozen by the time it lands. 😆 🤣
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Post by rushy on Apr 19, 2024 22:34:41 GMT
Lost was awesome, though Abrams had little to do with it beyond setting it up anyway. He still directed and wrote its pilot, which remains one of the most cinematic and effective in TV history. Just have to rewatch the first few scenes with Jack running around the fuselage to see what I mean.
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Post by iank on Apr 19, 2024 23:07:14 GMT
I loved Twin Peaks in the day, though the dip in mid season 2 and lack of ending was an annoyance. The revival was also hideously awful. On balance, Lost ended up making more sense.
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Post by rushy on Apr 19, 2024 23:10:11 GMT
I loved Twin Peaks in the day, though the dip in mid season 2 and lack of ending was an annoyance. The revival was also hideously awful. On balance, Lost ended up making more sense. I haven't seen the revival yet. What happened? Everyone praised it to high heaven.
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Post by Spark Doll King on Apr 20, 2024 0:06:05 GMT
Fact that Godzilla movies, and Japanese special effects shows and movies in general, get dismissed as cheap, rubber suit, trash.
I will concide that the fact the monsters are men in suits is cost cutting, because stop-motion is both expensive and time-consuming. That said the monster suits, and puppets, are often highly detailed, not cheap to make and require maintaining. How expensive you ask? Well a crowed funded reconstruction of the Showa era Gigan suit cost 109688 dollars, it little wonder that monster suits are often reused and cannibalised to keep budgets from spiraling out of control. Thats not saying anything to the actors who toil away in these heavy, hot, restrictive suits to create dynamic battles despite the fact they can barely see. Kaiju suit actors are also very much in harms way, thanks to working in close proximity to pyrotechnics, even going so far as to have them strapped to their suits. Actor have been burned, injured, knocked out, almost drowned and almost died in the production of the these series, along with putting themselves through gruelling physical work.
Then we have the model cities. These are anything but cheap. These sets and their scale cities are labours of pure art. Painstakingly crafted to be as true to life as possible, even to the point of having full interiors built in some cases, the actors in the monster suits actually felt bad that these cites, which took hours of work, would be completely trashed in a matter of minutes during filming. This even extends to things the the water sets, which would be filled with gelatin and other substances to make the water better emulate the movements of the ocean.
And to see such amazing, dedicated work pasted of as "cheap crap" kind of pisses me of.
I feel the same way about Classic Who. Yes the show was made on a low budget but bugger me if they didn't push that budget as far as they could. Some people are dead set on just not seeing how much hard work the production team put in.
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Post by iank on Apr 20, 2024 0:21:03 GMT
I loved Twin Peaks in the day, though the dip in mid season 2 and lack of ending was an annoyance. The revival was also hideously awful. On balance, Lost ended up making more sense. I haven't seen the revival yet. What happened? Everyone praised it to high heaven. God knows, I could barely follow any of it. 90% wasn't set in Twin Peaks and McLachlan wasn't playing Coop for 80% of the time. With half the cast dead or retired it was just sad and depressing too. I get the feeling it was more of a vanity project with TP shoehorned in as no one would have paid for it otherwise...
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Post by The Yak Emperor on Apr 20, 2024 5:17:20 GMT
I haven't seen the revival yet. What happened? Everyone praised it to high heaven. God knows, I could barely follow any of it. 90% wasn't set in Twin Peaks and McLachlan wasn't playing Coop for 80% of the time. With half the cast dead or retired it was just sad and depressing too. I get the feeling it was more of a vanity project with TP shoehorned in as no one would have paid for it otherwise... Well that's David Lynch. I love the guy but everything since Eraserhead has been a vanity project to a substantial degree.
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Post by Cherry Pepsi Maxil on Apr 22, 2024 15:48:26 GMT
As inferred on other threads, my film tastes don't align at all with most of the forum's most active members. So are you saying we have shit taste or you do?
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Post by Bernard Marx on Apr 22, 2024 15:55:04 GMT
As inferred on other threads, my film tastes don't align at all with most of the forum's most active members. So are you saying we have shit taste or you do?  That’s for you to decide, not me. After all, I’m not a mod. 🤣 Truth be known, I jest somewhat. *No one* has the same tastes as anyone else here…
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